PLACE Emeryville House

Introduction

How to get rid of all of your stuff and live in a box with wheels for a year.

Well hello there, and welcome. We’re Paul and Alana Cloutier and we are starting off on a 1 year long road trip around the US and Canada in a vintage motorhome that we’ve restored.

Every year we try and do a couple of big 2 week long trips in the car, usually to the southwest.These trips were always a blast but we felt like we were always rushing and never really getting to know any of these places. There was also a lot of the country that we couldn’t really get to on a 2 week trip.

We had come out of several startups in a row and were thinking about starting another one, but not quite ready for the commitment yet. As we were talking about it we both really just wanted to take some time and travel, we both had very fond memories of our road trips. If only there were a way to just do that for a while. So we actually looked into it and realized that it was cheaper to take a year long road trip than to live in the Bay Area.

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Realizing that they both really just wanted to travel and take pictures, Paul and Alana decided to get rid of all their stuff and hit the road for a year in a 1977 GMC Motorhome that they restored from the ground up. This is their trip.

Paul Cloutier

Paul loves to drive and spends more time looking for the worlds largest X than he probably should. He's pretty excited about Kentucky bourbon tours and finally seeing New England.

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Alana Cloutier

Alana is only taking pictures on this trip with an iPhone and spends a lot of time hiding the dog when we go places. She's pretty excited about seeing as many donut shops as possible.